RE: [Very OT] HTML E-mail

[Dave Taira <bodhi@hagakure.org>]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Steve Shockley wrote:

> As an aside, I'm not sure I understand why people get so darned angry
> about HTML emails.  While I agree that if you're on a text-only mail
> reader an HTML-only email is unreadable, most HTML-capable email readers
> I'm aware of include a text-only version as well.  HTML does require
> more bandwidth and storage, but I'd argue that quote > content wastes
> more bandwidth, yet nobody seems to comment on that.

Err, what? the "> " prefixing prepends two characters on a string
that's ~70. Even if you're quoting a lot of short lines (say, a
commandline cut & paste) you're still only adding, say 5%. If you
include *both* a plaintext version, and an HTML version, you've
more than doubled your total size. And, the quote prefixes serve a clear
purpose. HTML mail, for the most part, does not.
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| Dave Taira <bodhi@hagakure.org>                2001.01.08/16:14:02 PST |
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